This collection consists of material relating to the personal and professional life of Austin Willis. The fonds covers his early life in Toronto, his time working for the CBC (radio and television), and various film projects (for instance "Bush Pilot" and "Goldfinger"). The fonds consists of various material, including correspondence, scripts, news clippings, sound recordings (either of performances or interviews with Willis), promotional material relating to productions involving Willis, and other documents. The fonds also contains a sousfonds relating to the personal and professional life of Willis's older brother, James Frank Willis.

A finding aid for the collection can be found on MemoryNS at https://memoryns.ca/austin-willis-fonds